PROMPT: Voronoi & Wearable
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Voronoi Ring
Voronoi Ring
Voronoi ring modeled in Rhino. Working on making the shape look organic and smooth. We plan on plasma cutting this shape.
Voronoi Cell Pendant
Voronoi Cell Pendant
This cell was modeled in Rhino and modified to fit the measurementes of the stone we are purchasing off Amazon. We plan on printing this voronoi cell in two halves in order to insert the stone then mold pieces together.
Above is the first test print of our first voronoi cell, when we loaded our pink and orange filament for the first time.
The opals that we ordered off of amazon - we had to adjust the openings on the voronoi pendant so that the opals could fit in but not fall out!
Using the Air grinder to remove the black parts of the metal created by the plasma cutter.
Using the rotary polisher to polish the voronoi bracelet.
Using the plasma cutter to cut out the voronoi bracelet.
We began experiencing challenges when we tried to print multiple necklace pendants at once. We think that the machine got overwhelmed with how close the different objects were, and the printing tip may have accidentally knocked over/shifted some of the objects, causing the whole print to be off. This resulted in a mess of pink and orange spaghetti - it looked kind of cool, but was definitely not what we were going for.
We found that the best way to make these pendants ready to hang on a cord was to drill a little hole on the top of the pendant. We had to do this very carefully so the pendant wouldn't crack or split.
After moving the pieces a little further apart from each other, it worked a little better - we had at least 5 pieces that were unaffected by faulty printing, though we still experienced some 'spaghetti'.
Our final print: we decided to space these pieces out significantly more, and only print a third of the pendants than usual, so one wouldn't interfere with the printing of the other pendants. This was our most successful print.
Final Product: Added rings with microdrill bit and braided similar colored string for necklace.
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